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Making Your Fleet as Safe as Possible

Posted on May 16, 2022 by Allen Brown

Handling a large vehicle fleet is never easy, especially if your company is currently going through a major growth period and requires a lot of additional support. Ultimately, the safety of your drivers is in their own hands. But there’s still a lot you can do in your position as a leader to improve the situation across the board and minimize any unpleasant incidents. This is an ongoing battle that will require constant attention on your part.

The Importance of Standardized, Regular Training

Training everyone working at your company will become more and more difficult over time, especially as the company branches out to different locations. It’s important to ensure that your drivers have access to standardized training that is run regularly. You must also do your best to make sure that every driver has equal access to this training and they’re not treated as something exclusive. And at some point, you will have to step things up on your end and push people to take those training more actively.

Making it a mandatory policy is not out of the question if certain types of incidents keep happening. Research solutions that can help

Safety Tech

The modern tech market offers many solutions that can help you improve the safety of your fleet. A fleet blind spot detection system can improve the safety record of your drivers while also assisting them with some parts of their duties, for example. You can also analyze the data collected by those systems over time, running it through centralized analytical machines that can uncover patterns you would otherwise not notice.

Integrating safety technology into your fleet can take a while and it will require some effort on part of your drivers and everyone else working for you. Don’t be surprised if people voice their frustration during the transitional period. Make sure that everyone is on the same page with regards to how long this will take and what it will ultimately lead to.

Centralized Reporting System

A centralized reporting system can also be quite helpful if you’re constantly dealing with reports from multiple directions and don’t know how to prioritize them efficiently. There are various solutions to this problem these days, including some very advanced systems that can provide you with in-depth insights into the performance of your fleet.

This requires your drivers to know how to use those new systems in the first place, so refer to what we mentioned above about regular training and make sure that this is in place before committing to a more advanced reporting system.

Never forget what we mentioned earlier, either. This is something that will require constant, ongoing attention from you, and it’s not the kind of job that you can just do once and call it a day. Improving the safety of your fleet will be a significant struggle at some points, but in the end, it’s one of the most important factors to secure during the growth of your company. Otherwise, you’re setting yourself up for failure in the long run. 




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